Storyboard

Script of my opening sequence

Radio: The eyes of the world will be on London on 27 July 2012 for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Ceremony will mark the beginning of the Olympiad. It will provide an opportunity for the world to view the artistic expression of Danny Boyle and his team, and the culture of our Host City and the UK. All the hotels are fully booked for the event. Many imporant people are going to be arriving. You can feel the tension and excitment rising.

Cast And Props

Cast and Props

Audition trailer analyses

Dark lighting when you first see the girl to show she is dangerous. The telephone rings but she doesn’t answer which shows that she has probably has done something not very good and doesn’t what to be discovered. There is peaceful music and we see her dressed in a white leotard dancing which is in contrast with her killing a man. The low angle of her and the high angle shot of the man shows that she has power over him. This subverts the stereotype that women are less powerful than men. From all this information we can understand that this film is a thriller and that the woman will be a killer. The dominant colours are black and brown which are very mysterious colours

Changes of the opening sequence

1. Outside an airport during the day. The woman comes out of the airport and walks along the road.
2.  Crosscutting inside the room during the evening where she is setting up the gun and turning on the radio; something about the 2012 Olympics is being said on the radio
3. Crosscutting to her walking along the air port.
4. Crosscutting to her in the room taking an aim outside the window. A man enters the room holding a gun.
5. Reaction shot of the woman seeing him she turns pointing her gun at him.
6. Blackout. We hear a gun shot.

In our first ending, the woman looked people outside and stopped at one person, which we could see through the viewer of the gun. Than there was a black out and you just heard the shot.
Now we changed it. The woman is still looking at people outside with her gun, but than someone nocks on her door harshly. She turns around and when she sees him you have a reaction shot of her face. They both point there guns at each other. There is a blackout and you hear a gun shot but you don't know who got shot.
We decided to do this because we wanted more action in our opening sequence. And we thought it would add sum suspense to the opening sequence. We also didn't know how to film it in the Olympics, because there was no way for us to get access to the Olympics. 

Power Point On: Sound, Camera and Mise En Scene

Mise en Scene, Camera, Sound[1]

Mise-en-scene of my thriller opening sequence

The woman is wearing a big dark blue hat with a white ribbon around it

She is also wearing a dark blue tailleur and high-heels

 She will also be wearing big sunglasses and red lipstick.

By choosing to have her in this costume we wanted to show that she is feminine and sexy even if she is a professional killer to subvert the audience’s expectations of powerful women being butch. We want her to look powerful and dangerous.

For props we will use a long distance gun

And a radio

The opening sequence will be set in an airport and in a room. We will use ambient lighting for the airport and dark lighting for the room

Narrative theory

The Narrative Theory

Prop found that in every film there are always seven different types of characters :

A Hero

A Villain

A Donor

A Helper

A Princess

A False Hero

Todorov found that every film passed through five different stages.

1. Equilibrium

2. Disruption

3. Acknowledgement of the disruption

4. Resolution

5. New equilibrium

Prop's theory applied to the Dark Night

A Hero: Bat Man

A Villain: the Joker

A Donor: Luscious Fox

A Helper: Alfred

A Dispatcher: Commissioner Gordon

A Princess: Rachel Dawes

A False Hero: Harvey two face

Todorov’s theory applied to Jaws

1. Equilibrium: Everybody’s happy at the beach

2. Disruption: The shark arrives

3. Acknowledgement of the disruption: They notice that the shark is there

4. Resolution: They kill the Shark

5. New equilibrium: Everybody is once again happy on the beach

A Dispatcher

My new thriller idea

My New Thriller Idea

We chose to make her a terrorist because it rely fit in the thriller genre and terrorists are a contemporary problem.

Powerpoint evaluation of a opening sequence

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Ideas for my thriller opening sequence

Thriller

At first the group decided to use my idea. When we presented it they told us to change it idea because it wasn’t very believable and it had already been done it also didn’t rely go anywhere and the mise en scene was too complicated to be created in the studio. So we took the main character (a strong and independent woman) and put her in an other setting where she is now a terrorist

the target audience of thrillers

Generally most thrillers have a target audience aged from 16 to 26 some examples of thrillers are

Saw

This thriller is aimed mainly at a male audience aged 18 to 26 as it features gore and torture. It also stars an unattractive male actor, this is why it doesn’t attract a female audience.

Salt

This thriller is aimed at a male and female audience aged 16 to 26 (mainstream global audience) as it is staring actress is a strong woman, women will want to go and see it as they admire her or see them selves in her. Men will go and see it as it features action and an attractive woman.

Why do people like thrillers? What target audience do thrillers attract?

Why do people like thrillers?

We enjoy thrillers because of an attitude generated by the modern western world that makes us identify ourselves in the victims. We don’t only empathise with the victims. We often also feel empathy for the antagonist. Our attitude and mentality has evolved through time and so has the genre.

What target audience do thrillers attract?

Scream

This thriller is targeting a young audience. This shown by the fact that the two first characters we see are teenagers. It plays with a fear that can be common in young people, the fear of being alone. Also the language used in the film isn’t very complex.


The Shining



This Thriller’s target audience is older than the one for scream. This is shown by the fact that in the opening scene there is no dialogue, this forces the audience to imagine and fink about where the car is going

The target audience to a thriller varies according to the sub genre; a horror thriller’s target audience (16-20) is younger than a psychological thriller’s target audience (20-40)

Three examples of thrillers

This poster tells us that this is going to be a Technothriler and a Psychological thriller. The colours and low key lighting signify mystery and danger. We can also see Leonardo Dicaprio holding a Gun. He is standing in the middle of stormy water; this signifies danger. All this shows us that this film is going to be a thriller

The woman screaming shows us that she is terrified by the axe. The man has a crazy look in his eyes this shows us that he is probably the one holding the axe, this axe will clearly be used as a weapon. This fulfils the generic conventions of a thriller.

The colours used in this advertisement are all dark colours; this shows us that this film will clearly be a thriller. Also the man is holding a gun and the girl is on the phone with a terrified look in her eyes; by the way theses photos are cut we can deduce that the man is trying to save the girl. This shows us that the film will be an action thriller.

What are the generic conventions of a Thriller?

What are the generic conventions of a Thriller?

• Protagonist at the mercy of the antagonist
• Cheap surprise: an easy shock caused by an unexpected sound/action/movement
• False ending: It appears the case is solved but actually it isn’t
• Theatre of the mind: Foces the audience to imagine some things that aren’t shown in the film

What themes and content might be present in a thriller, give examples from thrillers you have watched

There are many different themes that can be used in thrillers such as:
• Psychological thrillers: where the conflict between the main characters is emotional and mental rather then physical. It generally ends violently. E.g. Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese

• Political thrillers: where the hero must ensure the stability of the government that employs him. E.g. Seven Days by Fletcher Knebel
• Legal thrillers: where the hero is a lawyer and is in danger with loosing his case and his life due to enemies in the courtroom and outside the courtroom. E.g. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

What is a thriller? What types of thrillers are there?

What is a Thriller?

• A thriller is essentially about the battle of justice vs. injustice.
• There is often a price to be paid for the conclusion of the story.
• You can define a thriller from it’s point of view (e.g. psychodrama : psychologist POV, A tough guy’s POV : film noir…)

What types of thrillers are there?

The thriller genre includes many sub genres such as : spy thrillers, political thrillers, military thrillers, conspiracy thrillers, thechnothrillers, medical thrillers, legal thrillers, forensic thrillers, psychological thrillers, horror thrillers...

Military Thriller

Psychological thriller

Medical Thriller

Editing my prelimenary task

We have edited our Preliminary task sequence and have used a Program called "Final Cut". We needed to apload everything we have filmed and save it in the "rush bin". You need the rush bin in order to have backups in case something goes wrong with your editing and you can always go back and re-use the files.
We have chosen the shots we want to use and put them into the "log bin". It was important to name them properly, so you can recognise them afterwards and choose what you need e.g. "Adam wide shot". We had two screen, in the first one you could see the shot you have already got and in the other the edited part. There is a big window called  a "time line" below where you can actually edit and change the sequence and the shots. With the help of the "play head" (little yellow triangle) you can play you sequence from whereever you like. We learnt that we could expand the shot or cutting it. We have experimented with overwriting the bit of every cut, so the cut is more smooth. We have also tried to use just the sound of  a shot, but use another for the image, which also worked fine. However, I found that a little bit confusing because we had to be really careful which bit to use and when. I have enjoyed the part where we had to decide which sequence to use and the cutting. I found a little difficult to match the shots together, so the sequence looks like a whole logical bit and not just cuts. I also liked the idea that now I know more about how the films we watch are actually edit, which is really amazing.

Preliminary task evaluation

We filmed the scene in a recording room which had a proper set with walls a door and a sofa. This was Perfect location because we could use the sofa as a prop and we needed the door for the scene. I was very active during the shooting, giving directions to the actors, making shore that everything was ok for continuity (the actors standing on there markers, sitting in the same place on the sofa...). I also came up with the plot idea and filmed a lot.

We didn't use any specific lighting
This was important so that the scene could seem "real"

We set the camera correctly with the white balance, focusing etc… We checked the tripod level at every shot and bubbled it every time we changed the level. We checked the frame at every change of shot and choose appropriate angels for every shot making shore that we could see what we were supposed to see in every shot. We started with filming the wide shot then tie 1^st over the shoulder shot and close up; then the 2^nd over the shoulder shot and close up. We needed 5 different shots because the wide shot is good to “set the scene” and the over the shoulder and close up are good to show the characters reactions. Also having a lot of film makes it easer to edit. WE had to respect the “180 degree rule” (an imaginary line that you can’t cross or else the scene looks “wrong”). We also used the appropriate language: “Stand by” before we started recording then “Rolling” when the camera was recording and finally “Action” when the actors should start acting; at the end of the scene we would always say 2cut so that everyone knows it’s all over and can relax.

camera shots and movement

High angle shot: shose that a character has power over an other
Low angle shot shows that a character is inferior to an other
Establishing shot/extreme long shot: Showse the audiance where he scene will take place.
Extreme close up: concentrates on a particular feature of the character that is relevent to the scene.

Docter who editing techniques

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/view/7iykgg

About myself

Hello, I'm Otti. I'm Italian but was born in Paris then moved to London when I was about one, moved back to Paris when I was 7. I’ve just moved back to England after 9 years.
I love acting and psychology; when I finish school I want to become an actress or a psychologist specialized in eating disorders.
My favorite film, at the moment, is "Breakfast on Pluto" by Neil Jordan.
I love music and I’ve always wanted to sing but I have a terrible voice...
When I lived there I used to go to "l'ecole Alsacienne" It's a rely lovely school but it doesn’t take acting very seriously so I decided to go to Hurtwood.